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Rotisserie Chicken Banh Mi

Recipe by Connie Veneracion
If you can get Vietnamese baguette with its thin flaky crust and soft airy bread, the better your banh mi will be. If using regular baguette, you may have to remove some of the bread inside to make room for the fillings.
Mayo and liver pate make the base of the sandwich. Vegetables, pickled and fresh, add richness to the filling. Eggs are optional.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 0 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Course Snack
Cuisine Vietnamese
Servings 2 sandwiches
Rotisserie chicken banh mi

Ingredients
  

Pickled carrot and radish

  • ½ cup julienned radish
  • ½ cup julienned carrot
  • ¼ cup rice vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • 1 pinch salt

Chicken banh mi

  • rotisserie chicken as much as you like, torn into chunks
  • 2 mini baguettes
  • 2 tablespoons mayo
  • 2 tablespoons liver pate (canned liver spread is okay)
  • ½ cup julienned cucumber
  • chili lime salt (see notes after the recipe)
  • liquid seasoning Maggi is the default
  • chili sauce we use Sriracha
  • cilantro
  • eggs fried sunny side up (optional)

Instructions
 

Make the pickled carrot and radish

  • Place the carrot and radish in a jar.
  • Stir together the rice vinegar, sugar and salt with a quarter cup of water until the sugar and salt are fully dissolved.
  • Taste the vinegar-sugar sugar mixture. If you prefer a sweeter pickling solution, stir in more sugar.
  • Pour the pickling solution into the jar with the carrot and radish (see notes after the recipe).

Assemble your rotisserie chicken banh mi

  • If your chicken is cold, toss in a hot pan (or pop into the oven toaster) to reheat.
  • Toast the baguettes and split vertically.
  • Spread mayo on half of the bread and liver pate on the other half.
    Split baguette spread with mayo and liver pate
  • Scatter the julienned cucumber on the bottom half of the baguette.
  • Pile the chicken on top of the cucumber.
    Assembling chicken banh mi
  • Top the chicken with the pickled carrot and radish.
  • Sprinkle chili lime salt, and drizzle seasoning and chili sauce over the filling.
  • Optionally, top with fried eggs before finishing up with fresh cilantro.
    Adding cilantro and fried egg to chicken banh mi
  • Bring the two halves of the baguettes together (if you added eggs, be careful not to squish them) and serve.

Notes

Ideally, the pickled carrot and radish should be prepared several hours or even a day ahead and kept in the fridge to allow the vegetables to soak up the flavors of the pickling solution. 
Chili lime salt is available in Asian groceries. If you can't find it, simply mix together finely grated lime zest, chili flakes and salt.
Keyword Banh Mi, Sandwich